The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund returns to San Diego Comic-Con with another set of panels on protecting comics and the rights of the comic arts community! Here’s the current roster, with more panelist updates to follow! Comic Bans: Learning…
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Finale: U.S. v. Comics
The medium is the massacre in the epic finale of U.S v. Comics: The Senate Effort to Censor Comic Books, which examines how televised U.S. Senate comic book hearings in 1954 led to the creation of the infamous Comics Code.…
Part 6: U.S. v. Comics
This week the science has spoken, as the publication of the notorious Seduction of the Innocent sets up a landmark senatorial showdown.
Part 5: U.S. v. Comics
Recent attempts to censor graphic novels and manga have resurrected the claim that comics are bad for kids’ mental health. Today’s episode of U.S. v. Comics examines the origins of this assertion in what was once considered to be cutting-edge…
Part 4: U.S. v. Comics
Politics enters the picture in the fourth episode of the webseries U.S. v. Comics by Ian Rosenberg and Mike Cavallaro, as Senator – and soon-to-be the Democratic candidate for vice-president – C. Estes Kefauver targets the fifth horseman of an…
Part 3: U.S. v. Comics
In the newest episode of the webseries U.S. v. Comics by Ian Rosenberg and Mike Cavallaro, E.C. Comics and Publisher William Gaines bring a fresh perspective to the comics industry – and embark on a collision course with history.
Part 2: U.S. vs. Comics
Comic books heat up in the 1950s in part 2 of U.S. vs. Comics, the new webseries by Ian Rosenberg and Mike Cavallaro!
New series: U.S. vs. Comics
Check out the first episode of a new weekly webcomic on the 70th anniversary of the Senate comic book hearings – and what they teach us about censorship today!
CBLDF @ WonderCon
The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is at WonderCon with our newest Defending Comics Today update panel! On Friday, March 29, from 2:00-3:00pm PDT in Room 213CD, join interim director Jeff Trexler and CBLDF board member Amy Chu as they discuss the latest developments in the…
Victory in Texas: Appeals Court Upholds Book Ratings Injunction
After our defeat of the court petition that sought to prohibit the sale and distribution of Gender Queer in that state, the attorney for the other side announced that the next step would be to impose a mandatory graphic novel…
New year, new challenges, new hope
After another epic year of challenges to – and successful defenses of – graphic novels nationwide, 2023 drew to a close with Comic Book Legal Defense Fund Interim Director Jeff Trexler sharing our experiences at the Congressional Roundtable on Book…
CBLDF @ NYCC
New York Comic-Con starts tomorrow, and the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund will be there! Join us on Saturday, October 14, at 10:30am in the Javits Center’s River Pavilion for our annual CBLDF update panel, Defending Comics Today. We’ll discuss the most recent…
CBLDF Theater Talkback in Chicago this Friday
In the Chicago area and interested in the past, present, and future of comics censorship? A new play on the 1950s comics scare, The Innocence of Seduction, is about to have its final weekend of performances at the City Lit…
Good News: Court to Issue Injunction vs. Texas Book Rating Law
On August 31, Judge Alan Albright of the U.S. District Court in Austin, Texas, stated that he plans to issue a preliminary injunction in Book People et al. v. Wong, in which the CBLDF joined bookstores and other free speech groups…